On 12 February 2020, a three-day round table on “Strategies and key tools in the field of complex financial commercial investigations” began in Trebinje, gathering close to 30 prosecutors and investigators from different Prosecutors’ Offices, and representatives from Law Enforcement Agencies and Tax Authorities.
The aim of the event was to strengthen the interdisciplinary approach of complex financial investigations and to develop common grounds for technical and strategical advances to increase efficiency. This event is a follow up of the event held in October 2019 in Sarajevo.
The first day was devoted to the presentation and work on the first phases of the Case study “Legal and operational challenges of complex financial and economic criminal investigations – strategy and investigative techniques” developed by Mr Renaud Van Ruymbeke, EU Expert with the extensive participation of the practitioners.
Mr Damjan Rezek, Expert from the European Union IPA Twinning Project, “Support to the Fight against Money Laundering” presented the lessons learned from the project, but also presented his case study.
On the second and third day, the participants will work on the additional cases studies with Mr van Ruymbeke and Mr Ismet Šuškić, Head of the Department of Economic Crime in the Special Department for Organized Crime, Economic Crime and Corruption of the Prosecutor’s Office of BiH (SDOC).
This event is organised in cooperation with the Centre for Education of Judges and Prosecutors of Republika Srpska and Centre for Education of Judges and Prosecutors of Federation BiH.
